On second thought, Paul is engaging in Racism by Proxy

[MrScorpio]

Paul's libertarianism denies that it even exist, while benefiting from American white privilege.

It's lazy racism.


(By the way, I can change my mind from time to time)

[Warpy]

1. Libertarians are dreamers

who think people will regulate themselves and their own behavior.

The proof that this isn't the case isn't only the fact that we need police and jails, we have seen the biggest financial meltdown since the Great Depression.

Still, nothing seems to wake up a dreamer who thinks the world would be a perfect place if only...

[MrScorpio]

4. His entire belief system depends upon turning a blind eye to the evil that even under his own nose

I think that it's willful intellectual laziness.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. He supports theocracy, opposes gay marriage

and demands that the state interfere in women's reproductive health care. He is not a 'l'ibertarian, he is a 'L'ibertarian, so he does not qualify in any sense for a pass based on ideological purity and naivity.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. bullshit

I am really tired of the endless rationalizations here for why supporting the legalization of resegregation of lunch counters is not racist.

Repealing the civil rights legislation of the 60's would be an act of racism, supporting the repeal of that legislation is an act of racism. Randy is a racist.

[MrScorpio]

7. Would he stand in the doorway against black people, or would he just ignore the people who do?

He's much more the ignore type...

I don't think that he has the cojones to stand in a doorway with a baseball bat.

[Warren Stupidity]

9. Voting yes to repeal is standing in the doorway with a pick axe.

What part of that are you unclear on?

[Bluebear]

3. I think that he is.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. He advocates for the removal of all legal remedies to institutional racism...

because they stop good honest white people from being the ethical and moral leaders they were from the time the Constitution was instituted until 1964.

Nope, that is racism.

You see, the Civil Rights act of 1958, 1964, Title IX and the other modifications to law ensure that the libertarian ideal of equality for all was a fact of law as well as of ideology.

His changes would benefit white people. He is an institutional racist.

[KonaKane]

6. Ignoring racism as it is happening around you

Is the same as being a racist. Especially when you benefit from it (as a shopkeeper would, in Paul's case). Angela Davis once said that a racist is "anyone who benefits from a racist system".

[MrScorpio]

11. You know, come to think of it, it's more racism by proxy

Thanks for pointing that out

I'm fixing the OP

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Libertarians are racists.

:shrug:

[bluerum]

12. Choosing to do nothing, is choosing - it is endorsing a position.

[jtuck004]

13. If he was marching with Martin Luther King Jr. down a street in

Mississippi in, say 1959, and they stopped at a service station to use the water fountain, would he go ahead and drink from the "whites only" fountain because there was one in back for everyone else, or...?

Rand seems to me to be the kind of person who would send his kids to the swimming pool that doesn't allow black kids, because the black kids have other pools they can go to, never understanding how that violates our principles of equality. He is the kind that I would expect to sit around and laugh at the "colored boy" jokes at the Sunday picnic and nod his head when the pastor talks about the evil of bigotry. He would ride in the police car stopping and arresting a disproportionate number of black folk because he really believes that they commit more crimes, never questioning the premise or his own prejudice.

I think I understand what you are trying to say, but I think he is the worst kind of racist. I would rather have the person who honestly tells me who they hate and that they hate them all the time instead of someone whose motivations I could never be sure of.

[notadmblnd]

14. if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the probllem

Rand Paul is part of the problem.

[ThatPoetGuy]

15. Good for you, being willing to alter your point of view.

Rand Paul thinks that a free country does not force private enterprise to adhere to ethical behavior. He thinks "freedom" means the freedom to make others suffer due to their race. He's willing to watch millions of people from minority backgrounds be discriminated against, to serve his juvenile notion of what freedom is. He thinks Blacks and other minorities should just accept it, should just suffer, in service of HIS idea of freedom.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. Good for you.

It takes courage to change your position.